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The best perks to pick for the early game in Saints Row On this page, we’ll take you through how to gain new perks inSaints Row, how to equip them, and going over our choice of the best perks for the early game. How to unlock perk slots in Saints Row In Saints Row you have five perk slots, which can be equipped with a perk of the corresponding type. However, perk slots are locked by default, with the following requirements needed to unlock each one:...

How to unlock new skills in Saints Row and which ones to equip What are the best skills in Saints Row?InSaints Row, gaining new skills is a fairly linear process. But with only four active skill slots available, you’ll still want to be selective about your choices, particularly as you progress further through the game and have more options open to you. On this page we’ll give you our picks for the best skills to take with you into a fight....

Plazas & Promenades will be out soon More than any other citybuilder,Cities: Skylinesrequires deep engagement with its traffic simulation. You can spend an endless number of (very satisfied) hours tweaking your road network to try to fix traffic jams. The next Cities: Skylines expansion might offer an alternative, however. The Plazas & Promenades DLC, announced today, will allow you to create pedestrian streets and zones where cars dare not tread. Find the first trailer below....

I’m quite partial to ‘STARE’, myself Thebest Wordle starting wordhas long been a subject of debate ever since the clever little word-guessing game exploded in popularity the best part of a year ago. But now owners The New York Times have declared a new officially recommended startingWordleword, and I’m not sure how I feel about. As spotted byThe Verge, The New York Times’s official companion appWordleBotnow presents players with a new recommended starting word:SLATE....

But will it arrive before The Last Of Us Part 1 on PC? We’ve known HBO have been making a TV adaptation of everyone’s favourite grim zombie apocalypseThe Last Of Usfor some time now, but aside from a few leaks and still images, we haven’t actually seen it in action yet - until now. Late last night, HBO released the first official footage from the show, showing Pedro Pascal’s Joel giving some serious lip to Bella Ramsey’s Ellie, as well as a very quick peek at Bill, played by Nick Offerman....

The game’s levelling system and its benefits explained How can I level up quickly in Saints Row?InSaints Row, skill progression is tied in closely with the levelling system. As your Boss climbs the criminal ladder of Sant Ileso, they’ll gain XP and advance through 20 character levels, each of which gives them access to another new skill. On this page we’ll give you some tips on how to level up quickly inSaints Rowso that you have access to every skill as soon as possible....

A rumour that barely lasted for 24 hours I love it when a bit of internet rumour mongering gets instantly squashed by the powers that be, don’t you? This time, it’s in relation to a Blade game that Ubisoft are definitely not making. Rumours started circulating online yesterday when a YouTuber posted a video speculating about what possible games will be shown at theDisney and Marvel games showcasetaking place next month....

Due to expiring car and track licenses It’s sadly not uncommon for racing games to disappear from sale due to expiring licenses. Next for the scrapheap areProject CARS1 and 2, the simulation racing games from Slightly Mad Studios, which will disappear from sale on October 3rd and September 21st respectively. Slightly Mad made the announcement on Twitter: An update from the Slightly Mad Team on#ProjectCARSand#ProjectCARS2.pic.twitter.com/VtWEow5jao “Due to expiring car & track licenses, both Project CARS andProject CARS 2will be delisted from sale in the coming months,” starts the message....

The new Saints end up a bit less than the sum of their parts TheSaints Rowseries started off as a sort of rival toGrand Theft Auto, an action-adventure crime sim about working your way up the ranks of a street gang to become the boss. It quickly diverged to become less realistic and more impossibly bombastic, and niched down into giant dildo bats, aliens, reincarnation, and so on. The series has gone to outer space and to hell, so if you’re rebooting the series that doesn’t leave you many places to go except… backwards....

Including details on how to edit your character once the game is underway On this page we’ll give you an overview of every aspect of your Saints Row character which can be customised, and when and how you can edit or change your character after the initial character creation screen. Saints Row character creation You’ll first encounter the Saints Row character creation screen a few minutes into the opening cutscene. Here, you’ll be able to completely customise your Boss’s physical appearance under the following categories:...

Gently down the stream Not to paint them as particularly fierce open-world rivals, but jumping intoSaints Rowafter a week spent withMarvel’s Spider-Man Remasteredfelt like being hurled backward in time. While Deep Silver Volition’s “what if millennials, but crime” reboot is colourful and often quite pretty, you can tell it’s not nearly as interested in cutting edge visuals or contemporary PC tech trappings as the Spidey remaster is. Ray tracing? Yes but only for ambient occlusion....

Admiring more interesting indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye was caught by several games with flashy spin attacks, a lovely ride on a rattling railbus, swearing at geese, and plenty more interesting indies. Come admire them with me! I strongly believe in charging up an attack to spin round and round and round, and Valorous obliges:...

Mato Anomalies blends graphic novel-style adventuring with gumshoe dungeon-crawling You’re probably sick to the back teeth of games that describe themselves as having neo-futuristic cities by now, but hear me out.Mato Anomalies, an upcoming detectiveRPGfrom Chinese studio Arrowiz, doesn’t really feel like just another cyberpunk game. Yes, there is an enormousBlade Runner-style hologram lady who emerged from round a street corner at one point during my hands on demo, and yes, some of its citizens are decked out inRazer-esque face masks....